As I’ve said before, the road to peace leads through Damascus and ends in Tehran.

Is that right? Well hell, let’s hang our hat on that, what could possibly go wrong?

SouthernGent … like your “Ethiopia-ize”. That should be the new standard for nutbag islamist eradication. “An AC-130 “Ethiopia-ized” an al_Qaeda stronghold today” …

darwin on January 9, 2007 at 7:31 PM

Like Babs, I also read middle-eastern blogs. Enjoy most of them, but she’s right-they can enjoy the fruits of technology but will not understand or figure out how to repair them.

If Reid and Pelosi cave, the nutroots is going to go berserk.

So? They’ll cry and whine like they always do. But on election day, they’ll still vote Democrat.

I’ve already spelled out a number of times what the President should have done in regards to Iraq and the current situation, and what I think still needs to be done in order to clamp down on the in…

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The Commander-In-Chief went in to… promote democracy? With a religiously-divided tribal people who would only use the vote to establish a tyranny of the dominant?

The failure was restraining the military, -was not using utterly overwhelming force (to put the fear of God into the populace and any outside jihadists thinking of joining the fray), -was to allow embedded reporters to undermine morale with short-sighted, sensationlistic/defeatest hyperbole, -was to not control the chaos at the outset, and was to allow a Constitution to be written by the conquered people- who essentially smuggled in Sharia Law- and not by the conquerors based on our own Bill of Rights and secular-leaning Constitution.

At this point, without a re-determination to destroy the terrorists- from the Baathist “insurgents” and their foreign jihadist allies, to the Sadr Mehdi Army militia- this will only be a face-saving stalling move …to make an exit down the road look less like a shameful “redeployment” (AKA “retreat“) and more like a “hand-over of control to the newly-established Iraqi government forces“.

The failure was the Administration’s inarticulate inability to explain the historical stakes, to name the global enemy, and to explicitly spell out the looming disaster that anything but an annihilation of the jihadists- everywhere- will result in for our threatened Civilization.

We need a Churchill; we got a Mosquepit.

Does America even have the will to fight?

spmat on January 9, 2007 at 10:26 PM

Too many, maybe even a small majority do not have the will I’m afraid to say. That’s why I find these polls about the war to be useless because a bunch of unqualified sheeple shouldn’t have a say in military matters IMO.

Either go in Gen. Patton style and kick some ass or pull out. Either we kill fanatical Muslims (terrorists) ourselves or we pull out and let the fanatical Muslims kill each other. Half assing it only gets more of our troops killed in the long run IMO.

Heck, I’m no general either (being a former E-4 in the Navy hardly makes me a leader) and maybe I’m about as unqualified as they come but that’s how I see it.

Come to think of it, I was against the war before it even started because I KNEW our boys wouldn’t be allowed to fight. I remember saying this again and again back before the invasion. And whaddya know? My prediction came true.

The elites in this country need to go. Now.

BTW – What part of “Commander in Chief” do Pelosi, Kennedy and Shrillary not understand? Pulleez GWB, grow some cajones and slap these little midgets down!

Benthoven on January 9, 2007 at 7:31 PM
GWB has changed the meaning of CIC from commander-in-chief to commander-in-check.

Editor on January 9, 2007 at 7:37 PM

Bush is lost. We need him out, let VP Cheney take over. I have never been so disappointed in a President as I am with Bush and I have been a strong backer of his until the past 2 years. He is no longer a leader. No action in Iraq, no action on our borders. His inactivity is shameful.

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment….

A new Gallup poll shows a that few Americans currently support the troop ’surge’ in Iraq this week.  However, it must be taken into account that the public knows nothing of the details of ‘the surge’, so I’d say asking pu…

If Reid and Pelosi cave, the nutroots is going to go berserk.

here’s hoping they cave and their base eats them with some farver beans and a nice kiante’

The Democrat’s attempt to have it both ways should be a major news story nationwide. If the Republicans attempted to take such a non-stand during a Democratic president’s term, they would be labeled cowards.

A non-binding resolution that says “Our politics demands that we disagree with what you’re going to do, but since it might be right we aren’t going to commit political suicide by stopping you” is proof that these people do not represent Americans, in spite of being elected to do just that.

If a congressman believes his constituents would favor the surge, they should support it, unless their conscience strongly opposes it. And in that case, they should be utterly unequivocal in their opposition. This fence-straddling is an attempt to look good no matter what happens, but it has no value to this nation, and once again proves that these bedwetters fail their oath of office.

Sorry Allah, typo… “educated”…